🌟 Position: 179CMR - Senior/Lead Planner (Integrated Planning)🌟
📍 Location: Hybrid / 2 Days in Birmingham
💼 Type: Full-time
📅 Start Date: Immediate
💰 Salary: Competitive
We are currently seeking an experienced Senior or Lead Planner to join our dynamic award winning team. The successful candidate will play a key role in delivering high-quality integrated planning across major infrastructure programmes, with a particular focus on aligning schedule, cost, risk and commercial inputs into a single, cohesive view of programme performance.
This role sits directly within Cooper Moss Rutland, supporting client delivery through best-in-class planning expertise. You will be responsible for developing, maintaining and assuring integrated schedules, ensuring alignment across multiple disciplines and providing clear insight to support decision making.
As a Senior/ Lead Planner, you will operate across both strategic and delivery levels, working closely with project teams, stakeholders and leadership to ensure that plans are robust, realistic and aligned to programme objectives.
This role requires a strong background in integrated planning, with experience within energy, power or similar complex infrastructure environments highly advantageous.
About us: CMR is an award winning project controls consultancy that is first and foremost a team of people, passionate about the construction industry and changing the way project controls is provided. Our approach and culture have been recognised globally, with CMR named Global Project Controls Small Business of the Year 2025 (Project Controls Expo UK Awards) and one of the UK’s Best Workplaces in 2026 (Great Place to Work)
Our Purpose (Why we exist): Inspiring new ways to help shape our construction industry.
Our Ambition (What we want to achieve): Re-imagine project controls through a digital lens, being the obvious choice for clients and the place to grow together with intention.
🔹 What’s in it for you?
• At CMR you will have the opportunity to professionally develop like nowhere you have worked before.
• If you demonstrate the capability, our merit-based system will enable you to develop fast.
• We use our in-house capability matrix to transparently track your progression and highlight development areas.
• Join our small, dynamic team where every member has the chance to make a significant impact, shaping the future direction of our company and making a real difference.
• We believe in rewarding our team for their achievements, celebrating our successes but equally helping each other when things are tough.
🔹 You'll
• Develop, manage and maintain integrated project schedules across the programme
• Ensure alignment between schedule, cost, risk and commercial inputs to create a cohesive programme view
• Support the development of baseline schedules, including logic, sequencing and dependencies
• Monitor programme performance, identifying trends, risks and opportunities
• Provide clear reporting and insight to stakeholders and leadership teams
• Work closely with project teams to ensure plans are realistic, achievable and aligned to delivery objectives
• Support planning governance, controls and best practice across the programme
• Engage with stakeholders across multiple disciplines to ensure consistency and alignment in planning approach
🔹 We’re looking for:
Essential
• Proven experience as a Senior or Lead Planner within complex infrastructure or major project environments
• Strong expertise in integrated planning, bringing together schedule, cost, risk and commercial data into a single programme view
• Demonstrable experience developing, managing and assuring complex project schedules using industry standard planning tools
• Experience within energy, power or similarly regulated infrastructure sectors
• Strong understanding of planning best practice, governance and controls within a Project Controls environment
• Ability to analyse programme performance and provide clear insight to stakeholders and leadership teams
• Experience working across multiple stakeholders, ensuring alignment between delivery teams and programme objectives
• Strong communication and stakeholder management skills, with the ability to influence and challenge where required
🔹 At CMR we have a strong culture driven by our 9 Core Principles. We look to build a community of people that share our values and ambitions. We’re proud that 96% of our team say CMR is a “Great Place to Work” a reflection of our supportive culture, focus on people, and drive to do things differently.
• 👉 Learn more here: https://cmr.london/who-we-are/
📍 Requirements and Location:
• Full right to work in the UK
• Hybrid / 2 Days in Birmingham
📦 Salary & Benefits
• 25 days holiday (plus Bank Holidays)
• Comprehensive Private Healthcare (Inc Dentist and Optician)
• Life Assurance (x4 Salary)
• Pension: employers' contribution of 4%
• Company and personal performance-based bonus
• Salary Sacrifice Scheme
• Long Service Leave
• Training and professional development
• Regular social events
• Perkbox – employee experience platform
➡️ Next Steps
To apply to our vacancy please submit a copy of your CV for consideration. We look forward to hearing from you!
CMR welcomes and encourages diversity in our workforce. CMR is Disability Confident Committed and an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, colour, religion, age, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin or disability or any other protected characteristics. We aim to create a culture where everyone can be themselves and is valued for their strengths and unique perspectives
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